Wine vs Proton vs CrossOver compared for 2026: versions, ProtonDB compatibility data, $74 CrossOver pricing, and which to pick for Canadian gamers.
Hi folks, As I teased in my previous blog post, we are looking for help in exploring a new product offering - CrossOver Enterprise. I am particularly focused on deploying Windows applications using Docker or Kubernetes and I'm particularly interested in folks that have AWS accounts and aren't afraid to use them.…
Jeremy White
Founder
A bit over three years ago, I announced my retirement from CodeWeavers. Since then, I've volunteered with a number of great organizations, deepened my commitment with a few others, and have explored other interests. I've been to Machu Pichu, toured castles and monasteries in Europe, seen…
Jeremy White
Founder
This week we're talking to Jeremy White, semi-retired founder of CodeWeavers, the unofficial (but defacto) shepherding company for the Wine Project and the folks who've worked with Valve to make things like Steam on Linux possible.
CodeWeavers CrossOver lets you run many Windows apps and games on a Mac without installing Windows.
The writing is on the wall, so CodeWeavers is removing its reliance on Rosetta 2. A very early test version of Apple Silicon-native Crossover is now available for testing.
We're Back. No Regrets. CodeWeavers has reconvened. We did it last year, and the year before that, and we will keep doing it every year because the ritual demands it, and also because Steam games go on sale in the summer and we are not above capitalizing on that. We will keep doing it unless marketing misses their…
Jana Schmid
Marketing Director
Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0.
If you've spent any time around Linux gaming, you've probably seen terms like "Wine", and "Proton" tossed around interchangeably, especially a few years ago. The nuances between these tools gets messy fast, and I get why people lump all of them together in the way that they do. After all, they roughly do the same thing from a user's perspective: run Windows stuff on Linux. But the how and why matter enormously, and there are over 30 years of history behind how we got here.
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers.